Dr. Barnes on Ptihlk and Private Education. 3 



this qiieftion, to be exadly the fame. But, 

 they confider the feveral fchemes, in different 

 afpeds. 



I have not the vanity to hope, that I fliall 

 be able to offer a fingle argument, which has 

 not been repeatedly canvaffed. My utmofl: 

 wifh, in chufing this fubjeft, was, not to offer 

 fomething newj but to throw out a few hints, 

 merely by way of introducing a queftion, than 

 which none greater and more interefting has 

 been, or, by our laws, can be agitated in thefe 



meetnigs. 



That we may fpeak with precifion on this 

 fubjefl, it will be neceffary to define the terms, 

 PUBLIC and private education. 



By PUBLIC EDUCATION, We mean, education 

 at a large public fchool, confifling of perhaps 

 two or three hundred boys, fuch as Eton or 

 Westminster ; where the boys live in fome 

 common apartments, deftined for this ufe, or 

 are boarded in great numbers, with perfons, who 

 only undertake to find them commons and 

 accommodation. 



By PRIVATE EDUCATION, we mean, education 

 AT HOME, in the houfe, and under the eye of 

 a parent, or private tutor. 



Between thefe two fchemes, there will be 

 almoft infinite gradations. Exaftiy in the mid- 

 way between them, are thofe fchools, where 

 boys are boarded in the houfe of a mafter, 



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